![]() ![]() “Innovation is in our bloodstream - and always has been,” says Valerie Komor, director of AP’s corporate archives.Īnother big leap came in 1935, when - after 10 years of development in collaboration with AT&T - the AP launched its Wirephoto service, using a 10,000-mile network of telephone lines to distribute pictures to newspapers simultaneously with the news report. ![]() On Saturday, The Associated Press will deploy a small army of writers, photographers, radio correspondents and video journalists to cover the coronation of Britain’s King Charles III.īut for his mother’s crowning 70 years ago, the world’s oldest news cooperative enlisted the help of an air force as well.įounded in 1846 by competing New York City newspapers looking to share the costs of covering the Mexican War, the AP used boats, barges, trains, sleighs, ponies and pigeons to get stories to its “members.” AP was an early adopter of Samuel Morse’s and Alfred Vail’s telegraph - thus the term “wire service.” With the telegraph, communications technology severed itself permanently from transportation methods. It might just be the coolest caption in newspaper history: “AP Wirephoto via jet bomber from London” ![]()
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